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FOOLS are two leftovers from A Thousand Clowns. The girl has changed from Barbara Harris to Katharine Ross, but the man remains Jason Robards. Once again he plays the crumpled buffoon, out of step with society, delivering loud, whimsical broadsides against such well-riddled targets as the Establishment, traffic and the FBI. His paramour is 25 years his junior, and her attachment for such a droning bore may be ascribed to callowness or to a classic Electra complex. But she is still the dream-child of The Graduate and the only visible excuse for an overblown farce that collapses into...
...Broadway is supposed to be used for the development of careers. It was never its intention to support the industry, and if Equity thinks so, its behavior is irresponsible." It is true that off-Broadway has served as the training ground for many current stars, including George C. Scott, Jason Robards Jr., James Earl Jones, Colleen Dewhurst and Dustin Hoffman. It also has nurtured writing talents like Edward Albee, who gave Producer Barr two of his off-Broadway hits. Barr's third was The Boys in the Band, which has netted its backers a 1,750% return already. Other...
...contrast to the Jason Epstein book or Tom Hayden's account, Lukas shows that this spectacular extravaganza need not in any sense be construed as a trial. It was a complex network of conflicts, dominated by personalities and fed by all of those issues which have been rightly injected into trial commentary. But certainly there were no winners and the trial has come to no particular...
...Tuesday night, following the returns and formulating first plans for the section they would put together. By the time they assembled at the office on Wednesday morning, a News Service team had organized correspondents' overnight reports into a 27-page outline of the election results. Senior Editor Jason McManus then gave the week's assignments to a group of colleagues whose backgrounds are almost as varied as those of the winning candidates...
From Washington, Neil MacNeil, whose book Dirksen: Portrait of a Public Man is being published this week by World ($12.50), filed voluminous reports on the Senate's historical relationship to the President. The cover story itself was written by Correspondent Hays Gorey; it was edited by Jason McManus and researched by Anne Constable...